rv (version 2.3.2)

summary.rv: Numerical Summary of a Random Variable

Description

Gives a numerical summary of the random variable in the format of a data frame.

Usage

# S3 method for rv
summary(object, …)
  # S3 method for rvfactor
summary(object, all.levels=TRUE, …)

  # S3 method for rvsummary
summary(object, …)
  # S3 method for rvsummary_numeric
summary(object, …)
  # S3 method for rvsummary_integer
summary(object, …)
  # S3 method for rvsummary_logical
summary(object, …)
  # S3 method for rvsummary_rvfactor
summary(object, all.levels=TRUE, …)

Arguments

object

object to summarize

all.levels

show summary for all levels even if there are too many to display in one line

…

rv object

Details

The objects are first coerced to rvsummary objects, then passed on to the summary.rvsummary method, which creates a nicely formatted data frame of the object.

References

Kerman, J. and Gelman, A. (2007). Manipulating and Summarizing Posterior Simulations Using Random Variable Objects. Statistics and Computing 17:3, 235-244. See also vignette("rv").

Examples

  x <- rvarray(rvnorm(6), c(2,3))
  summary(x)
  summary(as.rvsummary(x))
  summary(rvfactor(trunc(x)))